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Phoenix

Argus title : A place for hope and achievement

The Phoenix was a mythical bird, believed to live in the deserts of Arabia. When the time came for it to die it would build its own funeral pyre. Out of the ashes a new Phoenix would rise.

It is a powerful image of the triumph of life and hope over suffering and death. It suggests the possibility of transformation.

Brighton Housing Trust’s First Base Day Centre is a place of transformation. The use of the building itself is radically different from what it once was, for in Regency times it was a ballroom. Continue reading